Political Quotes

“I join in the chorus of praise and thanks to my friend--and I mean that; the word is thrown around here--Mike DeWine. We came to this job together. My very first memory of Mike and Fran DeWine was when we were both wearing tuxedos and Fran and Loretta were in evening gowns, and we were at our first dinner at the White House with President Ronald Reagan as Congressmen-elect. The year was 1982. My wife brought her little handbag, and Fran brought even more to that White House dinner, that formal dinner that evening. She brought a basket and in that basket was her brandnew baby who came with her to the White House dinner. It was the first time I ever met Mike and Fran. I still have vivid memories of that moment. I think it was a little daughter in the basket, if I am not mistaken, who might be up here. She was on her best behavior then, as she is now. Another memory I have is when Mike DeWine asked me to join him on a trip to Haiti. I saw a side of my colleague from the Senate which many of us have not seen. Fran came along on the trip with bags full of sporting equipment and toys and clothes and food, everything they could jam into this small airplane to bring over to give to some of the poorest kids in the world. We went to the Cirque du Soleil, the poorest section of Port-au-Prince. If you haven't seen that poverty, you haven't seen poverty. It is as bad as it gets.…”